Washing compound



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES KYLE MCWVHORTER, OF SALEM, VIRGINIA.

WASHING COMPOUND.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 365,269, dated June 2], 1887.

Application filed February 11, 1887.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that 1, JAMES KYLE Mo- \VHORTER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Salem, in the county of Roanoke and State of Virginia, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Washing Gompounds; and I do declare the following to bea full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention has relation to improvements in compounds of a saponaceous nature for washing clothes and analogous fabrics without the intervention of wash-boards or similar clothes-destroying machinery, and it has rela tion more particularly to that class of inventions wherein a proper combination of nondeleterious chemical substances will when properly used dissolve the dirt or other foreign matter; and the object of the invention is to provide a simple, cheap, and efficacious kerosene and one (1) ounce of the spirits of turpentine and mix thoroughly, and then add Serial No. 227,270. (No specimens.)

it to the soap-and-water solution while thelatter is in a boiling condition, and allow the whole to boil for two or three minutes.

The clothes, fabrics, or other articles to be cleaned are first wet in clear clean water and then placed in the washing solution, and one (1) ounce of aqua-ammonia put in, and the whole boiled for ten to twenty minutes, the time depending on the degree to which the articles are soiled. If such parts as the bands on the neck and sleeves are very much soiled, the cleansing operation will be much facilitated by rubbing the soiled parts with some of the solution orlather formed by it.

I am aware that the ingredients have separately and in other combinations appeared in soaps and detergent compositions. Therefore I lay claim only to the combination and proportions given.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new and useful, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, 1s

The washing compound herein described, consisting of soap, water, spirits of turpentine, kerosene-oil, and aqua-ammonia, in about the proportions herein specified.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

JAMES KYLE MOVVHORTER.

\Vitnesses:

T. W. SIMs, I. LEE MoWHoRTnRf 

